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In Reply to: RE: I Was going to post about exaSound E22, HQ Settings, and Jitterbug, but posted by AbeCollins on September 23, 2015 at 18:44:50
The readout on the E 22 is essential, only way to know which of the many Digital Rates is playing, to be certain. It cost $3500.
How much was your Ayre?
No Sound impressions yet, but got HQ Player going to play Natively or Upsample as high as DSD4.
I was never sure what was playing on the E12, beyond PCM our DSD.
I have a Mytek, with Internal Jumpers, to compare, up to 2X DSD,
but the exa is almost 3x more $ w/new Power Supply.
I'm also thinking of getting Paul Hynes Power Supply, almost $700.
No wonder they don't include it with the DAC!
Anyway, I need to let it play for a while before really checking it out in detail.
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There is an exaSound Dashboard included with the driver, window's version. It shows file resolution. Did you use this?
I use my headphone amp for volume control and leave the dashboard set for 100%.
The Ayre QB-9 DSD shows the sample rate (44, 88, 96, 176, 192, etc.) but not bit depth (16, 24, etc). The Ayre DAC is priced at $3250 unless there was a price hike, but I bought mine lightly used for much less.
I use Audirvana Plus which will show the incoming file bit-depth and sample rate, and the outgoing bit-depth and sample rate that the DAC will receive. I normally pass 'hi-res' files at their native sample rate but upsample by a factor of 2x on my 44.1KHz CD rips. AV+ has some nice custom settings in this regard.
Custom settings to upsample 44.1KHz files only by 2x. Others are passed 'native' to the DAC with no upsampling.
In this example the incoming file is 44.1KHZ but upsampled to 88.2KHz by AV+ before being sent to the DAC.
In this case my Ayre DAC also shows 88 on it's display.
In this example the incoming file is 24/192 and is unchanged in the outgoing signal to the DAC.
The DAC also shows 192 in it's display.
So there are ways to "see" what your DAC is receiving without a display on the DAC but it's much more convenient to have it right there in the DAC screen.
I never thought of experimenting with the upsampling facility built into Audirvana. As always, thank you for another informative post.
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